linux-toradex.git/kernel/events, branch v4.3-rc2

kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code

2015-09-10T20:29:01+00:00

There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
 kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Petr Tesarik 
Cc: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2015-09-03T15:08:17+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Another merge window, another set of networking changes.  I've heard
  rumblings that the lightweight tunnels infrastructure has been voted
  networking change of the year.  But what do I know?

   1) Add conntrack support to openvswitch, from Joe Stringer.

   2) Initial support for VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), which
      allows the segmentation of routing paths without using multiple
      devices.  There are some semantic kinks to work out still, but
      this is a reasonably strong foundation.  From David Ahern.

   3) Remove spinlock fro act_bpf fast path, from Alexei Starovoitov.

   4) Ignore route nexthops with a link down state in ipv6, just like
      ipv4.  From Andy Gospodarek.

   5) Remove spinlock from fast path of act_gact and act_mirred, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   6) Document the DSA layer, from Florian Fainelli.

   7) Add netconsole support to bcmgenet, systemport, and DSA.  Also
      from Florian Fainelli.

   8) Add Mellanox Switch Driver and core infrastructure, from Jiri
      Pirko.

   9) Add support for "light weight tunnels", which allow for
      encapsulation and decapsulation without bearing the overhead of a
      full blown netdevice.  From Thomas Graf, Jiri Benc, and a cast of
      others.

  10) Add Identifier Locator Addressing support for ipv6, from Tom
      Herbert.

  11) Support fragmented SKBs in iwlwifi, from Johannes Berg.

  12) Allow perf PMUs to be accessed from eBPF programs, from Kaixu Xia.

  13) Add BQL support to 3c59x driver, from Loganaden Velvindron.

  14) Stop using a zero TX queue length to mean that a device shouldn't
      have a qdisc attached, use an explicit flag instead.  From Phil
      Sutter.

  15) Use generic geneve netdevice infrastructure in openvswitch, from
      Pravin B Shelar.

  16) Add infrastructure to avoid re-forwarding a packet in software
      that was already forwarded by a hardware switch.  From Scott
      Feldman.

  17) Allow AF_PACKET fanout function to be implemented in a bpf
      program, from Willem de Bruijn"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1458 commits)
  netfilter: nf_conntrack: make nf_ct_zone_dflt built-in
  netfilter: nf_dup{4, 6}: fix build error when nf_conntrack disabled
  net: fec: clear receive interrupts before processing a packet
  ipv6: fix exthdrs offload registration in out_rt path
  xen-netback: add support for multicast control
  bgmac: Update fixed_phy_register()
  sock, diag: fix panic in sock_diag_put_filterinfo
  flow_dissector: Use 'const' where possible.
  flow_dissector: Fix function argument ordering dependency
  ixgbe: Resolve "initialized field overwritten" warnings
  ixgbe: Remove bimodal SR-IOV disabling
  ixgbe: Add support for reporting 2.5G link speed
  ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
  ixgbe: support for ethtool set_rxfh
  ixgbe: Avoid needless PHY access on copper phys
  ixgbe: cleanup to use cached mask value
  ixgbe: Remove second instance of lan_id variable
  ixgbe: use kzalloc for allocating one thing
  flow: Move __get_hash_from_flowi{4,6} into flow_dissector.c
  ixgbe: Remove unused PCI bus types
  ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2015-08-21T18:44:04+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/usb/qmi_wwan.c

Overlapping additions of new device IDs to qmi_wwan.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

perf/ring-buffer: Clarify the use of page::private for high-order AUX allocations

2015-08-12T09:43:20+00:00

A question [1] was raised about the use of page::private in AUX buffer
allocations, so let's add a clarification about its intended use.

The private field and flag are used by perf's rb_alloc_aux() path to
tell the pmu driver the size of each high-order allocation, so that the
driver can program those appropriately into its hardware. This only
matters for PMUs that don't support hardware scatter tables. Otherwise,
every page in the buffer is just a page.

This patch adds a comment about the private field to the AUX buffer
allocation path.

  [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143803696607968

Reported-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438063204-665-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes

2015-08-12T09:39:19+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD migration race

2015-08-12T09:37:22+00:00

I ran the perf fuzzer, which triggered some WARN()s which are due to
trying to stop/restart an event on the wrong CPU.

Use the normal IPI pattern to ensure we run the code on the correct CPU.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Vince Weaver 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: bad7192b842c ("perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix double-free of the AUX buffer

2015-08-12T09:37:21+00:00

If rb->aux_refcount is decremented to zero before rb->refcount,
__rb_free_aux() may be called twice resulting in a double free of
rb->aux_pages.  Fix this by adding a check to __rb_free_aux().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 57ffc5ca679f ("perf: Fix AUX buffer refcounting")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437953468.12842.17.camel@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: add the necessary core perf APIs when accessing events counters in eBPF programs

2015-08-10T05:50:05+00:00

This patch add three core perf APIs:
 - perf_event_attrs(): export the struct perf_event_attr from struct
   perf_event;
 - perf_event_get(): get the struct perf_event from the given fd;
 - perf_event_read_local(): read the events counters active on the
   current CPU;
These APIs are needed when accessing events counters in eBPF programs.

The API perf_event_read_local() comes from Peter and I add the
corresponding SOB.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to uprobes

2015-08-06T18:29:14+00:00

By copying BPF related operation to uprobe processing path, this patch
allow users attach BPF programs to uprobes like what they are already
doing on kprobes.

After this patch, users are allowed to use PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF on a
uprobe perf event. Which make it possible to profile user space programs
and kernel events together using BPF.

Because of this patch, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS should be selected by
CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT to ensure trace_call_bpf() is compiled even if
KPROBE_EVENT is not set.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Brendan Gregg 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: He Kuang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kaixu Xia 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Zefan Li 
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf/x86/intel/pt: Do not force sync packets on every schedule-in

2015-08-04T08:16:55+00:00

Currently, the PT driver zeroes out the status register every time before
starting the event. However, all the writable bits are already taken care
of in pt_handle_status() function, except the new PacketByteCnt field,
which in new versions of PT contains the number of packet bytes written
since the last sync (PSB) packet. Zeroing it out before enabling PT forces
a sync packet to be written. This means that, with the existing code, a
sync packet (PSB and PSBEND, 18 bytes in total) will be generated every
time a PT event is scheduled in.

To avoid these unnecessary syncs and save a WRMSR in the fast path, this
patch changes the default behavior to not clear PacketByteCnt field, so
that the sync packets will be generated with the period specified as
"psb_period" attribute config field. This has little impact on the trace
data as the other packets that are normally sent within PSB+ (between PSB
and PSBEND) have their own generation scenarios which do not depend on the
sync packets.

One exception where we do need to force PSB like this when tracing starts,
so that the decoder has a clear sync point in the trace. For this purpose
we aready have hw::itrace_started flag, which we are currently using to
output PERF_RECORD_ITRACE_START. This patch moves setting itrace_started
from perf core to the pmu::start, where it should still be 0 on the very
first run.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: acme@infradead.org
Cc: adrian.hunter@intel.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438264104-16189-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar